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My expression and approach is Ack Basswards
I fought with the most manual approach to this expression as I could to come up with for usable results. I know it’s a really dumb way to do it though. I would love it if someone could straighten me out with this.
I have a layers that is wiggling it’s y position. It has a a circle shape layer as a shadow below it. As the y position increases in value (goes down) I want the x scale of the circle layer to decrease.
It would probably be better to specify value ranges somehow? I don’t know, but I realize I took the wrong approach.
Thanks in advance,
George
ypos=thisComp.layer("FolderNULL").transform.position[1]
xscale=transform.scale[0]
yscale=transform.scale[1];[xscale/(ypos/500),yscale]
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2 Replies
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Maybe something like this:
ypos=thisComp.layer(“FolderNULL”).transform.position[1];
startY = 0;
endY – 500;
startScale = [0,0];
endScale = [100,100];
linear(yPos,startY,endY,startScale,endScale);The numbers won’t be right, but the idea might work.
Dan
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Thanks Dan!
This was the expression I was trying to recall. I knew I needed to map values, but I couldn’t remember it for the life of me.
I posted the expression I ended up using below. The starting y position of the layer was 562 (pre-expression) and the wiggle was 75 – so I subtracted and added those values from the original value. Was there an easier (or better for the sake of changing) way to do this using “value”?
I had to map my values such that the startScale was larger than the endScale since I wanted the shadow to shrink as the item got lower to the ground.
ypos=thisComp.layer("FolderNULL").transform.position[1];startY = 562-75;
endY = 562+75;
startScale = [140,100];
endScale = [100,100];
linear(ypos,startY,endY,startScale,endScale);
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